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From Great Prodigy House to Structural Reduction: The Jacobean Masonry and Timber Mechanics of Audley End near Cambridge

From Great Prodigy House to Structural Reduction: The Jacobean Masonry and Timber Mechanics of Audley End near Cambridge Audley End in Essex was once the most ambitious house of Jacobean England, a stone-faced palace built to lodge a king and later cut down to roughly a third of its size. […]

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The Plaster and the Timber: Vernacular Gypsum Architecture and Structural Frameworks of Albarracín Aragon

The Plaster and the Timber: Vernacular Gypsum Architecture and Structural Frameworks of Albarracín Set within a tight meander of the Guadalaviar River at roughly 1,100 metres in the Aragonese highlands, Albarracín presents one of the most coherent historic townscapes in the Iberian Peninsula. Its buildings are red not through decoration […]

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